Parents of students at the UCLA Lab School said they were frustrated by the unexplained administrative leave of a teacher at the school, a year after administration also put a former principal on similar leave. Read more...
Photo: A math teacher at the UCLA Lab School was placed on administrative leave with pay twice in the past year. The school’s principal was also put on unexplained leave last year, and did not return for the following year. (Daily Bruin file photo)
A UCLA alumnus aims to combat sudden cardiac arrest by creating more efficient devices to treat the condition. Sameer Jafri, who graduated in 2017, co-founded Revive Solutions after graduation to make automated external defibrillators. Read more...
Photo: Sameer Jafri, a UCLA alumnus, co-founded Revive Solutions after graduation to make automated external defibrillators. Jafri said it is in the process of getting approval from the Food and Drug Administration for its product, and hope to commercialize it in the next few years.(Courtesy of Sameer Jafri)
Quarter system got you down? Have you fallen and can’t get up? Bruin Tea is a series investigating student questions and petty concerns about UCLA. The white metal chairs outside Ackerman Union and other dining locations on campus are controlled by Associated Students UCLA. Read more...
This post was updated Feb. 5 at 2:25 p.m. University of California librarians and the UC Office of the President have been out of contract for four months but are still negotiating. Read more...
Photo: University of California librarians fundraised for a potential strike. UC and the librarians’ union have been out of contract for over four months, with no end to negotiations in sight. (Daily Bruin file photo)
UCLA Health and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA administrators halted their search for a new psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences department chair to address faculty concerns about diversity, leadership logistics and transparency. Read more...
Photo: Faculty members said in two town halls that the search committee was not sufficiently diverse. Out of the 11 original members on the search committee, 10 were white and eight were men.(Anirudh Keni/Daily Bruin)
This article was updated Dec. 1 at 1:25 p.m. Student government officials split surplus funding between their own projects and student groups. The Undergraduate Students Association Council received $424,885 in surplus funding to spend at its discretion. Read more...
Photo: The Undergraduate Students Association Council allocated $170,000 in surplus funding to its offices and $150,000 to programming funds. The remaining $104,885 will be allocated to student groups. (Amy Dixon/Photo editor)
Warren Grundfest is remembered for his mentorship and his work in minimally invasive surgery and electrical and biomedical engineering. Grundfest, a former chair of the Henry Samueli School of Engineering’s biomedical engineering department, died Dec. Read more...
Photo: Warren Grundfest was a professor in the department of surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine, chair of department of biomedical engineering at the school of engineering and a member of the UCLA Brain Research Institute. (Courtesy of the UCLA School of Engineering)
